ALBANY >> A Port Ewen teenager who killed a Kingston infant last year was sentenced Friday to 15 years in state prison.

Cavadeas Taylor, 19, was for sentenced for felony manslaughter by Justice Roger McDonough in state Supreme Court in Albany. Besides the prison term, McDonough ordered five years of post-release supervision.

Taylor was indicted for second-degree murder in December 2013 for the June 2013 death of 5-week-old Seth Knox Jr. Taylor pleaded guilty on June 3 to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

The indictment alleged that between June 11 and 12, 2013, at a home on Second Street in Albany, Taylor, who was 18 at the time, “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death that ultimately resulted in the death of infant Seth Knox Jr.,” according to a press release from Albany County District Attorney David Soares.

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Seth died on June 17, 2013, and Albany police, who had been alerted by Albany Medical Center staff about the baby having a severe head injury, arrested Taylor on June 21.

Police at the time described Taylor as a family friend and caretaker for the child.

Albany Times Union court reporter Robert Gavin tweeted that Taylor, during the June 3 court proceeding, told the judge he “lost my cool” when the baby would not stop crying and hit the infant’s head against a wall.

The child’s mother, Asia Gordon, who lived at the Colonial Gardens apartments in Kingston at the time of Seth’s death, told the Freeman last June that Taylor brought her son to Albany on June 11 to be with the child’s father, Seth Knox Sr. Gordon said she was told the next day that Knox Sr. was bringing the baby back to Kingston because the child felt cold.

Gordon, a home health aide, said Seth Jr. was convulsing and gasping for breath when he arrived, so she took him to HealthAlliance Hospital’s Broadway Campus in Kingston. The baby then was transferred to Albany Medical Center, where his condition worsened, Gordon said at the time.

Seth Knox Sr. was indicted on a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child for failing to seek prompt and adequate medical attention for his son, Soares said. That case is still pending.